Toshiba laptop help

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Hello Toshiba Owners!

This is a really easy and a very, very non-technical fix. I have a Toshiba A75-S206 and the thing would just shut down on me for no apparent reason. What I found out after doing what everybody else says to do (delete spyware detectors, install the new BIOS, etc.) none of that worked. Being angry with the situation I decided to try my own cure. . . which takes only a vaccum cleaner. What was happening with my laptop was that it was over heating due to an abundance of dust collecting in the computer itself. Instead of taking the laptop apart I merely took my vaccum and sucked out the fan ports on the bottom of the machine. You don't have to take anything apart or open the computer. I now do this about once every other month or so. I haven't had a shut down since and you will be amazed as to how much dust comes out of your machine. Give it a try. It didn't hurt anything on my laptop and it doesn't shutdown anymore.

Cobia7

Vacuming the fans corrects the fault.....thanks very much for the tip

as a note to any one doing this, you can brake the fans doing this with out keeping them still.. the vacume will make the fans spin to fast and mess the insides of the fan.. all you need to do is hold them still with a twist tie or someing like that..

I am having the same problem with my toshiba laptop, it get sooo hot, i think its overheating, its not very old, but just out of warrantly which is annoying. My housemate has the same one and hers does the same. Ive updated the bios as toshiba say, but this only stopped the porblem for a couple of weeks. It seems that this toashiba laoptop is abit rubbish! How can I stop it from overheating. The fan isnt broken as I can here it working!

Did you do what the others said? The fan might be working, but an abundance of dust can still cause overheating.

I would STRONGLY advise a can of compressed air over a vacuum, though. Using a vacuum inside a desktop or notebook computer can cause a static-electric build up and fry a component or two. I recommed compressed air from wal-mart and perhaps a moist papertowel for cleaning fan blades and headsinks.

NuAngel

my one year old Toshiba Satelite laptop does the same thing. I thought it was a virus of some sort so I put in the recovery CD and formated and reinstalled it all over again. Here's the weird part. It does the same thing while loading the recovery CD. It shuts down. Even weirder, it does not shut down when i keep my finger on the pointer screen and keep pressing keys every few seconds. ? That's the only way I got it to go through the whole reinstallation. It still shuts down now that I have a clean version of windows XP. I checked the Bios and i can't find fan speeds or temps. I also think it is over heating, and checked and both fans are spinning. I'm at a loss and was trying to avoid taking it in somewhere to have it serviced for $400/hour Any ideas anyone?

well,i think it's a hardware problem, seems to be the conver of the laptop adapter, the electric current doesn't go steady, try to change a adapter for your laptop by your friend own a Toshiba laptop, for the Toshiba laptop adapter is universal. if the adapter is poor, change it. i bought a laptop adapter from an online battery store.

i suggest every one who using toshiba laptop that you should run your laptop on a flat, hard, heat transference well cushion, for other Material of cushion is easy to block the heat sinking holes, and the fan may accumulate more and more dust, and accelerate the decline of the life of the fan and CUP.